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The relationship between humans and pets dates back centuries, indeed millennia. Anthropology, archaeology and history have analysed this relationship in many ways through material and written evidence, all converging towards a picture of close and harmonious coexistence, without the exploitative dynamics that have increasingly characterised our evolution. In archaeology, the practice of burying a pet in its own tomb or…

An old woman in Yunnan, a lay chan follower -as Zen is called- in China, ran a teahouse along the main road. She was famous for imparting edifying lessons of wisdom to the monks who stopped at her inn. Many of them preferred to avoid her: only the most daring, or the true seekers of Truth had the courage to…